Life is so broad. It includes anything you might do anywhere ever. It however only appears to be where you are now, doing whatever you are doing right now. I’ve spent 28 years in the city I’m in doing just about everything I wanted to do in it ever. I also did a lot of things I didn’t want to do, which included staying in it for 28 years.
Yet for 15 of those I have owned a house, and that house has gained equity, and that equity means I can leave this city. When I do that, I can do something different with my life, because the economics in other parts of the world aren’t like this bizarre place my parents happen to have moved to in 1996.
So I am a prisoner of this place, until I can sell the house. Which looks like six months based on how quickly the projects can get done.
It’s a toxic place though, and a concentration of toxic people with wealth and power. It really feels like trying to escape the mob.
but I have a benefit, I’ve talked to people on the outside. I talk to people who haven’t, man are they going stir crazy.
A fair few of them could migrate up the same way I’m going, there’s built in capacity and all the antiquated laws would rust in place. That’s a fair solution to the state won’t abide by civil rights laws issue. Unfortunately the underserved communities would struggle to migrate the most, and would suffer most again.
but where you are, what you are doing, is it what you want? You sure about that? Do you like the people around you? You sure?
The first sign of successful people is that they set achievable goals, so if you set yourself an achievable life, something you want to do, someone you want to be….. you’ll be successful if you can do it. No one knows you better than you.
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Life is so broad. It includes anything you might do anywhere ever. It however only appears to be where you are now, doing whatever you are doing right now. I’ve spent 28 years in the city I’m in doing just about everything I wanted to do in it ever. I also did a lot of things I didn’t want to do, which included staying in it for 28 years.
Yet for 15 of those I have owned a house, and that house has gained equity, and that equity means I can leave this city. When I do that, I can do something different with my life, because the economics in other parts of the world aren’t like this bizarre place my parents happen to have moved to in 1996.
So I am a prisoner of this place, until I can sell the house. Which looks like six months based on how quickly the projects can get done.
It’s a toxic place though, and a concentration of toxic people with wealth and power. It really feels like trying to escape the mob.
but I have a benefit, I’ve talked to people on the outside. I talk to people who haven’t, man are they going stir crazy.
A fair few of them could migrate up the same way I’m going, there’s built in capacity and all the antiquated laws would rust in place. That’s a fair solution to the state won’t abide by civil rights laws issue. Unfortunately the underserved communities would struggle to migrate the most, and would suffer most again.
but where you are, what you are doing, is it what you want? You sure about that? Do you like the people around you? You sure?
The first sign of successful people is that they set achievable goals, so if you set yourself an achievable life, something you want to do, someone you want to be….. you’ll be successful if you can do it. No one knows you better than you.
I don’t like this place I’m in also.